This self-paced, online course provides a basic overview of accessibility guidelines that will help you gain an understanding of how to make your course content accessible to all learners. It includes core accessibility concepts, as well as instruction on how to create accessible documents, accessible presentations, accessible multimedia and accessible Blackboard content. Resources to facilitate the creation of accessible course content are provided.

This online workshop provides an overview of creating accessible documents through hands-on application of accessibility principles. Participants will learn how to create accessible text and structure, incorporate accessible images, tables and hyperlinks and run a final accessibility check. The accessible document will then be saved as an accessible PDF file.

In this online workshop, participants will learn how to create an accessible PowerPoint presentation and update the accessibility of an existing presentation. Topics include elements of an accessible PowerPoint, common accessibility problems, accessible structure and design features, accessible images and non-text elements, accessible multimedia and saving/sharing presentations.

This hands-on course (offered both in person and online) will introduce participants to captioning YouTube videos, both their own and those created by others. The purpose is to introduce the concept of captioning, apply it using two online tools and utilize transcripts. This knowledge will be assessed throughout the course via discussion boards, quizzes and a final project.

This one-week, online course is designed to introduce you to the Poet image description guidelines resource, aiding you in providing more effective and accessible descriptions for your image content. During this course, you will be introduced to a web-based image description resource called Poet, learn significant factors that impact how description for images is provided and how to more effectively and efficiently provide image descriptions.

This workshop (offered in person and online) will teach participants how to create accessible Excel worksheets using Microsoft Excel 2016. Participants will learn how to properly format and structure Excel worksheets to meet ADA compliance and to be screen-reader accessible.

This informational workshop (offered in person and online) provides an overview of the new features and enhancements in the most recent Blackboard update. Additional information and resources about the Blackboard update are provided in the eLearning Resource Center within the "Issues" and "Updates" area. This workshop will be provided based on the annual Blackboard upgrade schedule. Visit the professional development registration system for a list of topics covered.

This professional development course provides faculty with the necessary information to develop the Blackboard skills required to efficiently facilitate online courses. The training information found in Blackboard Basics will allow instructors to reflect on a wide, but vital, range of topics that are essential to effectively teaching online, from how to thoughtfully structure course materials to how to properly create assessments and navigate Blackboard's grade center.

This professional development provides faculty with the necessary information to develop the Blackboard skills required to efficiently facilitate online courses. The information will allow instructors to reflect on a wide, but vital, range of topics that are essential to effectively teaching online, from how to thoughtfully structure course materials to how to properly create assessments and navigate Blackboard's Gradebook.

This one-hour, seated workshop provides an overview of Blackboard's plagiarism detection service, called SafeAssign, which is fully integrated with Blackboard Assignments. Participants will learn how to utilize SafeAssign to detect student plagiarism and educate students about proper citation and attribution.

This two-week online workshop is an advanced Blackboard training course. Participants must have a good working knowledge of the Blackboard Grade Center, Discussion Board, using the Assignment feature and organizing content. This course provides a hands-on introduction to the Groups tool and some of the communication and collaboration tools used to promote interaction among students.

This workshop (offered in person and online) provides an overview of Blackboard Ally. This tool is fully integrated into Blackboard and assists faculty in evaluating their course content for electronic accessibility. The tool also creates alternative formats for content that benefit students with varying learning needs. Participants will learn how to use Ally to assess and fix accessibility issues with their content and will also learn about the benefits the alternative formats provide to students.

This workshop is an advanced Blackboard session. Participants must have a good working knowledge of the Blackboard Test tool including how to create, deploy and manage a test. In this workshop, participants will learn best practices for Blackboard testing, how to use advanced testing features and options and valuable tips and tricks to ensure a successful Blackboard testing experience for you and your students.

This training session provides an overview of creating adaptive release rules to control student access to materials in Blackboard. Participants will learn how to use the Adaptive Release tool to hide materials from student view based on several criteria, including completion of the course entry quiz. Participants will also learn about the Performance Dashboard.

This one-hour, seated workshop provides an overview of the Blackboard Date Management tool. Participants will learn how to quickly and efficiently adjust all course content and tool dates, including availability dates, due dates and adaptive release dates from one location. Automatic and individual date management options will be discussed.

In this introductory course, participants will develop foundational knowledge about Open Educational Resources (OER), including a definition of and the history of OER, OER usage and licensing information and how to access OER using OpenNCCC. This course is a prerequisite course for the 200-level credential series in OER Course Design.

This online workshop provides an overview of copyright, fair use and public domain as they apply to instructional materials, such as supplemental texts, images and multimedia. Open Educational Resources will also be introduced briefly.

This course is the first of the OER micro-credential series. Participants will begin the implementation process of their OER development by utilizing the notion of Backwards Design for needs assessments, identifying relevant OER for course development, evaluating OER quality with established rubrics and considering academic articles and eBooks as supplemental resources to existing OER.

H5P empowers everyone to create rich and interactive web experiences more efficiently. Integrated into Blackboard, this unique tool is web- and mobile-friendly and aims to make it easy for everyone to create and share content for your students. Create content such as interactive videos, interactive presentations, quizzes, timelines and much more.

This course is designed for existing users of SoftChalk Create to help with migrating old content from SoftChalk to SoftChalk Cloud. This will cover saving from Blackboard to SoftChalk Cloud.

Special topics as relevant to changes in our educational technology tools.

Creating a community is key to student success in online classes, but are the discussion forums enough to do this? Flip is a free resource offered to educators that allows students to collaborate through short videos. This session will show you how to sign up for Flip, set up a classroom space and give tips to overcome students who may be shy about this type of discussion.

This course will provide an overview of creating and using instructional graphics effectively. Participants will discuss important elements of instructional graphics and have an opportunity to experiment with Canva and Snagit, two image-editing and graphic design tools that can be used to create and edit graphics.

This training, offered in person and online, will cover an introduction to using Microsoft Teams to hold classes and office hours. Microsoft Teams brings together people, conversations and content, along with the tools that teams need, so they can easily collaborate to achieve more. It's integrated with the familiar Office applications and is built from the ground up on the Office 365 global, secure cloud.

In this course, participants will learn strategies to increase students' engagement through Microsoft Teams. The lessons are separated into three main topics: increasing instructor presence, increasing student-to-student engagement and making course content interactive. Participants will review each of these topics, be introduced to several teaching methods for each topic and be asked to practice a method in the Teams classroom. As part of this training, you will be working in a Teams classroom and participating in discussions through Flip, but please continue to check Blackboard as well.

In this online training, participants will create a SoftChalk lesson for use in online courses. Participants will learn how to create an accessible, web-based interactive lesson with navigation links, pop-up annotations, web links, activities, quiz questions and an embedded captioned video.

This session, offered in person and online, introduces participants to TechSmith's Snagit software. Snagit is used to create, edit and enhance screen-capture images. During this course, participants will use Snagit to capture images and use the Snagit Editor to enhance images to help viewers understand the purpose of the image. Best practices for creating instructional graphics and using graphics in instruction will also be presented.

This workshop, offered in person and online, will introduce Camtasia, a screen-recording and video-editing software system used to create video tutorials. Participants will create an accessible screencast video and share it with students on Blackboard. Participants should successfully complete the course to gain access to a full version of Camtasia software.

This professional development course aims to provide participants with the skills and insights needed to create videos that are specific to their students' needs and that also fully engage students in active learning. Rather than having students passively view videos in a course, VidGrid offers options to turn those viewings into opportunities for active learning and collaboration. This course will introduce those features, guide faculty through using them in a meaningful way and provide the space to try out creating videos where faculty can benefit from technological and pedagogical support and feedback.

This session will introduce free or low-cost tools that can be used to create content for courses or to establish better communication with students. Discover how to engage with your students and create a sense of community in your online classroom.

This one-hour webinar will introduce faculty to the YuJa platform. YuJa is a video platform that integrates with Blackboard. With this platform, faculty can create videos for their course lectures, create video quizzes for assessment and create assignments for students to share video responses. In the introductory training, faculty will create their YuJa account and learn the basics of managing and distributing their YuJa media.

This one-hour webinar will provide training on some of the more advanced features of the YuJa platform. In this webinar, faculty will learn about the advanced features of the YuJa video editor and media player. Faculty will learn how to access the analytics for each video, create video quizzes, manage the YuJa grade book and manage their YuJa account information.

The idea of implementing UDL in your course can seem overwhelming. Well, it doesn't have to be. During this webinar, we will discuss simple strategies and tools for creating and presenting instructional material in a way that helps students process information more efficiently. We will also discuss ways to support students with interacting and engaging with instructional content.

This course introduces learners to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) theory and offers participants tips and resources for applying UDL in their own courses.

This course focuses on providing faculty and staff with the skills to begin including synchronous sessions into their online courses. Participants will review how to plan for a synchronous session, share activities that they want to try in a session and experiment with Microsoft Teams to learn how to hold an engaging synchronous session.

Do you finish giving a live lesson and wonder if the students actually "got it"? This course covers strategies to meet the technical, physical and pedagogical challenges that are unique to live video learning environments. We will touch on developing slides in PowerPoint that work better on a shared virtual screen, how to set up your machine (and yourself) for optimal lesson-casting and some approaches to make sure students start your session engaged and stay engaged throughout.

Information overload has always been a challenge for learners, but it becomes even more challenging during an era when everyone's content-hungry brains are feasting on simultaneous stimuli. This webinar will cover five easy steps for addressing cognitive load theory and combating information overload within your learning management system.

This course is designed for faculty/staff who have familiarity with Microsoft Teams and are now looking for guidance on using the platform for group projects. While the course resource area does contain Teams tutorials, the course content focuses just on separating students into smaller groups. If you have not yet used Teams, please take time to review the supplemental materials. The goal of this course is to show how groups can be assigned in Teams by creating separate channels, what applications can be used in these separate channels and how an instructor can navigate through them.

This online course will review Revised Bloom's Taxonomy (RBT) and explore how it relates to the creation of multiple-choice items. Participants will learn strategies and tips for writing multiple-choice items and aligning those items with student learning outcomes. Participants will create items that measure from the remember level of RBT to the evaluate level of RBT.

This course aims to incorporate accepted theories of adult learning with informative, hands-on tech training to provide faculty and staff with the skills to begin designing and recording creative and informative podcasts for online courses. A properly designed and thoughtfully implemented podcast can provide a unique and memorable learning experience for students and be a valuable communicative tool for faculty.

H5P empowers everyone to create rich and interactive web experiences more efficiently. Integrated into Blackboard, this unique tool is web- and mobile-friendly and aims to make it easy for everyone to create and share content to engage students. Create content such as interactive videos, interactive presentations, quizzes, timelines and much more. In this session, we'll explore how you can use H5P to build meaningful interactions to your course content.

Join us in a comprehensive two-week course where you'll explore H5P's interactive book tool, designed to enhance your lesson creation process. Discover how to craft interactive lessons that engage your learners as they process the course content. Throughout the course, you'll have the opportunity to create a well-structured lesson plan outline for a 45- to 60-minute interactive lesson and then build an H5P Interactive Book Lesson based on that plan.

This online course will introduce rubrics and their importance, their purpose, different types and how they can be constructed and used. Rubrics have been utilized to evaluate and provide feedback. They are a scoring scale used for evaluation in different contexts, based on a range of criteria rather than a single numerical score. The course will discuss different types of rubrics, the pros and cons of using rubrics and introduce the application of rubrics in Blackboard.

This course provides an overview of how to access and implement the performance Dashboard, Retention Center and other course evaluation tools to monitor and track student progress. Participants will learn how to access the course evaluation tools, observe student activity, identify at-risk students, evaluate student participation in discussion forums, modify and customize Retention Center rules and several other tool features to support instructor presence and student success.

This course provides a theory-based approach to promoting collaboration and communication within the online environment. Through lecture, hands-on application and the surveying of select resources, participants will learn how to effectively implement, create and manage a journal, blog and wiki within an online course. Participants will gain knowledge of how to use the tools to encourage student expression and creativity, foster student engagement and collaboration and enhance student interaction.

Participants will learn about general strategies for creating and grading engaging discussion forums, as well as the following specific types of discussion forums: icebreakers, question-and-answer forums, narrative learning forums (scenarios, case studies and role play) and content-related forums. Participants will have the opportunity to create and share a discussion forum activity, assignment or assessment.

This online course provides a theory-based approach to engaging students through media in a digital world. It provides participants with an overview of the different types of media, advantages and strategies for incorporating media into the online learning environment and the different resources available through Wake Tech and non-Wake Tech platforms.

In this session, we will explore how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to enhance the learning experience in higher education. We will introduce ChatGPT, a large language model tool developed by OpenAI, and discuss how this tool can be leveraged to benefit faculty and students by using strategies such as personalizing learning materials, automating administrative tasks and assisting with research.

Enhanced Engagement Teaching Strategies is inspired by the First In the World: Project Compass project at Wake Tech. The goal is to create proactive strategies to reach students, particularly students of color, who are at risk for low performance in online courses to ensure their engagement. These proactive strategies were designed using the Community of Inquiry framework, which focuses on cognitive, instructor and social presence. The premise of Project Compass was to increase the persistence and performance of students in online courses through technology and enhanced social interventions.

This professional development course will introduce faculty to using digital portfolios as an assessment in online learning. It will discuss how to assign a digital portfolio, offer guidance for the requirements of a digital portfolio and introduce the Blackboard Portfolio Tool.

Designing visual instructional materials that are professional quality, optimized for digital learning, and accessible to all learners can be a challenge. This training will present information about using Canva for higher education, provide help and training resources, and include a quick tour of Canva to help get you started.

This course provides the necessary background on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and defines equality, diversity and inclusion in education.

This second course in a five-part series focuses on the first tenet of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: achieving academic success through high expectations. In this session, participants will learn how planning for equity in the classroom can lead to greater student success. Techniques to tend to students' academic needs will be shared and course planning for using Culturally Relevant Teaching will begin.

This third course in a five-course series focuses on the second tenet of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: developing cultural competence through course design. In this session, strategies will be shared to help integrate students' cultures, identities, and beliefs in course materials and online curriculum design. Faculty will be asked to continue to work in one of their courses to develop a plan to implement Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in their course.

This fourth course in a five-course series focuses on the third tenet of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: social consciousness. In this session, the importance of making socially aware and impactful curriculum will be discussed. Faculty will continue to work with their previous course planning to build on their plan to implement Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in their course.

In the Capstone Course of the Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Certificate series, participants will implement the strategies they have planned during the courses. With an instructional designer, participants will show in one of their curriculum courses how they have practiced Culturally Relevant Pedagogy. At the conclusion of the implementation, a certificate will be given.

In this course, participants will learn how to address the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) with their students. While AI in general is discussed, the main focus of this session is ChatGPT. Participants will learn strategies to limit students' reliance on AI, how to include AI in classroom activities and creative ways that AI can make their own coursework a little lighter.

The Department of Education requires online programs and courses to include "regular and substantive interaction" between students and faculty. Deciding how to engage with your students to meet this requirement should be a part of your course design not because this is a requirement of a regulation, but because it supports student success by implementing proven teaching and learning best practices. In this professional development, we will define regular and substantive interaction and offer steps that you can take in your online course design to fulfill this requirement with engaging material and support student learning and success in the process.

This one-hour webinar focuses on how instructors can increase equity in their courses by designing problem-centered, meaningful assignments with clear instructions, purpose statements and success criteria. Using a three-part, research-based approach, participants will learn how to make current assignments more transparent in three easy steps with several examples across disciplines.

Developing a student-centered classroom is an important part of the student experience and directly relates to online class retention. One method to build on this is create authentic assessments in your course design. Authentic assessments allow students to apply their knowledge to real-life scenarios and problems. In this webinar, we will define authentic assessments and provide guidance on how to create more authentic assessments in your online course development.

For decades, research on online education has shown that human connections and interaction play an essential role in the learning process, and new data generated by the recent boom of online education has only reinforced this conclusion. In this one-hour webinar, we will discuss what a strong instructional presence looks like in our online or Hyflex courses and consider various strategies and best practices you can implement to strengthen it.

This one-hour webinar focuses on common course alignment issues and how to fix them. Applying the frameworks of Backward Design and Bloom's Taxonomy, this webinar leads participants through the course design process from course outcomes to assessments to weekly objectives and daily instruction, providing tips for evaluating alignment at each stage in the design process and suggestions for improving alignment among the stages.

This webinar will introduce participants to the essential concepts in creating a "liquid syllabus," a living document that fosters a sense of warmth and inclusiveness. The session will focus on how language and tone can increase your instructor presence and your overall student engagement. By the end, participants will possess foundational skills for creating a liquid and inclusive syllabus and will gain access to resources as needed for personal implementation.

In this webinar, we will discuss the unique challenges faced by the adult learners at Wake Tech. As part of this, we will discuss teaching methods to accommodate work schedules and family responsibilities. We will also explore teaching strategies that help adult learners share and create based on their life experiences.

In this eight-week online course, participants will learn about Wake Tech's eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC) and how it will help in effective and efficient course design. Participants will gain and apply knowledge and skills in Universal Design for Learning, accessible course design and best practices in course navigation, communication and collaboration, and online assessments. Participants will demonstrate these skills through the design and creation of an online course. The evaluation of the course will be used to measure success.
This course can be taken instead of the following series:

• TLS-101
• EPIC-101
• EPIC-102
• EPIC-103
• EPIC-104

This online course provides an overview of Wake Tech's standardized course menu. Participants will learn about the eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC) and how it will help in effective and efficient course design. Participants will gain information regarding the course menu design and how to customize course menu items for best practices in online learning.

This online course provides an overview of Wake Tech's quality communication standards as part of eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC). Participants will gain information regarding effective communication and collaboration in online courses and fostering student engagement.

This online course provides an overview of Wake Tech's quality assessment standards as part of the eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC). Participants will gain information regarding creating and administering effective assessments in online courses, creating measurable student learning outcomes and aligning student learning outcomes with lesson objectives.

This online course allows participants to create course components meeting Wake Tech's quality course standards as part of the eLearning Preparedness Initiative across the College (EPIC). Participants will evaluate and implement information gained from previous EPIC courses regarding creating and administering effective online courses.

This course is a comprehensive certification satisfying all EPIC30 courses, including Blackboard skills, Universal Design for Learning, accessibility and best practices. For this 10-week module, faculty must follow a weekly schedule, and there are specific deadlines that must be adhered to. Faculty will be required to submit work during designated times so they can receive feedback in a timely manner for material that builds towards a final project.
This course can be taken instead of the following series:

• BBD-121
• ACS-101
• EPIC-100

This two-week, online course is designed to prepare certified online faculty to become an EPIC eLearning Course Reviewer. This course will include a review of the responsibilities and duties of a course reviewer. It will review the alignment of the EPIC Quality eLearning Standards and course review rubric. Participants will practice critiquing and writing helpful recommendations and participate in a practice review in which the participants will be asked to review specific standards in an online course using the EPIC quality eLearning rubric. Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be eligible to serve on course review teams.

This course is composed of lessons that support your ability to serve as an EPIC mentor for new online faculty. Each module builds on previous ones, and a complete understanding of the program is required for course completion. The lessons cover mentoring policies, procedures, best practices, mentor and mentee roles and responsibilities, goal setting and time management, relationship building and communication and conflict resolution.

This course provides an overview of the laws associated with digital content and the standards that support achieving compliance with accessibility requirements. Participants will learn how to interpret the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1) and cross-reference associated success criteria to remediate digital content elements. Topics will include an overview of core accessibility concepts, developing an accessibility plan and identifying resources to support the development of accessible digital content.

In this two-week, online course, participants will learn instructional strategies for the effective use of educational technology to create and enhance instructional materials and activities. In addition to researching new technologies and exploring how to ensure technology is furthering student learning, participants will learn how to smoothly guide students in engaging new technologies to improve the learning experience.

This course will provide an in-depth review of the current EPIC Quality eLearning Standards. Participants will use the standards to evaluate their course and create an action plan to align their course design to meet them. EPIC certification is a prerequisite to this course.

A certified EPIC Online Teaching faculty member, with a supervisor recommendation, is assigned an instructional designer who will act as a consultant and mentor over a semester in updating an existing online course to achieve exemplary status. EPIC 110 is part of the EPIC Master Online Teaching Certification.

This course is intended for those who are new to the HyFlex environment; it is designed to be a short course that introduces participants to this relatively new style of teaching. Participants will examine two different types of HyFlex lesson plans. Participants will also learn about basic tips and strategies for creating and facilitating a HyFlex course.

In this course, you will learn how to navigate the physical HyFlex classroom and learn tips and best practices for creating and facilitating a HyFlex course. Some options for HyFlex-Light alternatives will also be discussed.

Creating a cohesive and collaborative HyFlex learning environment can be a challenge. How do you bridge the gap between the students sitting in your classroom and the students streaming remotely? In this session, you will learn tips, tools and techniques for engaging students in a HyFlex learning environment using MS Teams and corresponding applications.